Artifacts

Description

Artifacts are 3 rare items used as materials for powerful ships and for some special quests. They are extremely lightweight and only take 0.5 Cargo Hold each.

Artifacts can found at any point in space, but are quite rare and are only visible on the HUD 1000 studs or below, making this strategy of finding artifacts slow and inconsistent. Killing the pirate ship X-0 is the only other way to acquire these materials, but it is the only way of acquiring large amounts of artifacts, so it is competitive and difficult to loot the X-0 before other players do.

Trivia

• Previously, the Ascension Crystal was used in a quest given by the Monogram in Aqueous II's asteroid belt. The Data Archive was used in a quest found on Myriad III's moon. They were also used to make special ships called "Artifact Ships," now known as "Advanced Ships" After an exploit for creating these ships came out, they were subsequently disabled and eventually re-added, but this time without the cost of Artifacts. Instead, their prices rose dramatically. However, recently, they were readded to the Mega Base's Terminal D's sales floor on a 3 ships per rotation basis. More information here.